The Android Man from Lyon, France
In September 1990, a well-dressed man in his 50s in a busy downtown area of Lyon, France, stepped off a curb and was struck by a passing automobile. He was thrown
over the roof of the car, which quickly
drove away from the scene. Yi Ling Li, a
patrolman, heard the commotion and
hurried over to investigate while he examined the victim.
He tried to lift the unconscious man’s head off the pavement, and that’s when everything went completely wrong. He unscrewed the man’s head off his shoulders, and hesaw wires. The man was vibrating, like an electric current was passing through him and making noises like a tape player going backward. He grabbed the man’s head to support his neck, and it completely turned in my hands. He couldn’t believe it but it happened. Coroner Gaston Dupont conducted the autopsy and observed that it was the oddest of his career since the skin was plastic. The coroner couldn’t believe it, but he
understood right away that this was not human. He kept turning the head until it fell off. There was no identification on the body, and no one was there when we removed a microprocessor from the head and a luminous green crystal from the body that we suspect was used as a power supply. The underlying frame was made of metal, and a